Drupal is big! Practitioners are already working together.
Why not work together with a workers cooperative model as an option?
Questions of interest:
*What would it take to start a Drupal/FLOSS cooperative?
*What would the cooperative do?
*How could this facilitate international collaboration?
Look over the wiki pages:
*Drupal Cooperative How-To Resources
*Membership/Ownership Agreement
*Members Services
*Rights of Ownership
Do you know of a technology cooperative?
Add it to the directory.
please no recruitment job postings here unless you are willing to hire a worker co-operative; try Drupal Gigs, Worldwide, instead.
Drupal Cooperative Resources
Last updated by freescholar on Sat, 2018-01-27 10:27
Here's a group of resources that might be helpful. If you know of something that ought to be listed here go right ahead and do so.
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Tech Worker Coop HOWTO
hey discursives,
have been thinking about this for a while.. am actually right at this moment at the US Worker Coop conference. http://usworker.coop
have you seen the Tech Worker Coop HOWTO ?
http://electricembers.net/pubs/TechCoopHOWTO.pdf
also http://news.workercooperatives.com
have been researching a permaculture worker cooperative
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative
very interested in this..
Read moreRights and Responsibilities of Membership in a Drupal Cooperative
Last updated by discursives on Sun, 2010-08-08 13:01
The Rights and Responsibilities of Membership is one of the most important documents in a cooperative enterprise. It contains all of the details about how a member participates in the governance of the cooperative as a member and owner of the enterprise. This wiki page is for highlighting important responsibilities and rights in a Drupal Cooperative where the members are primarily developing Drupal related software, or, perhaps, other open source software, for clients. Feel free to jump in and add your ideas.
Membership Dues
Read moreDrupal Worker Cooperative Ownership and Membership - The Same Thing
This wiki page can be used to discuss additional aspects of ownership, or different situations around how ownership impacts the operations of a Drupal Cooperative and how members relate to each other and the organization.
Quick Overview of Ownership/Membership in a Cooperative
The members of a cooperative own the cooperative. If the cooperative is made up of members who are workers, then those workers own the cooperative.
The Purpose and Mission of a Drupal Worker
Last updated by discursives on Sun, 2010-08-08 12:48
Lot's can be said about what the purpose or mission of a Drupal Cooperative might be. This page lists some of those ideas. Jump in and add your own, and feel free to break big ones off into wiki pages of their own.
The Mission of a Drupal Worker Cooperative
*To provide excellent services to Drupal workers at the lowest price/hassle/overhead
*To provide an opportunity for Drupal Workers to collaborate on providing these services at the lowest cost and best way, and to work together in the effort
The Purpose of a Drupal Worker Cooperative
Read moreServices a Drupal Worker Cooperative Might Provide
Last updated by discursives on Sun, 2010-08-08 11:08
Cooperatives exist to serve the needs of their members. If the members of the cooperative are the folks we know and love who work on Drupal projects, what sorts of services would they need in common?
The following is a list of services that could fit the bill. Add in your ideas, and break them off into new wiki pages if you want to make more notes about them.
Hardware Services
*Server Hardware for development and production environments.
Software Development Collaboration Services
*SVN/Git services
*Serve Stack distributions (LAMP, LAMP+Mercury)
Legal Services
Read morePast Discussions on Drupal Cooperative Consultancy Solutions
Last updated by discursives on Sat, 2010-08-07 23:21
A number of threads have looked at how Drupalists could organize themselves. This list is maintained, and you should feel free to add threads to it or add in a point to under a link for more clarification or context.
You can take a look at some of the links below to find out more about the ways people have thought about cooperation before.
*Guilds vs. Unions on the Drupal Consulting list in August of 2009
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